Awesome house Jason. You have a beautiful foundation which you can change and modify in years to come. Not to mention the memories of keeping it in the family.
And the lack of surprises is a nice bonus!
Congrats!
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We started on the outside with adding color to the porches and trim, but the weather put that on hold till spring. The inside is slowly becoming ours. It is feeling like home though.
Dont know who did the zoning here for flooding. But in 1981 someone made a map of this area and I'm pretty sure they didn't even bother personally looking at the area. They just took a crayon and colored along the creek..There are houses across the road that are not in it. Those houses are about 10' higher in elevation then mine. The map shows the flood water reaching about 100' above my house. But across the road there is nothing, must be an invisible wall holding it back lol. The map is honestly a joke.
Now fast forward to 2018. The county did lidar to the area. It shows where there could be flooding in the next 100 years. I'd say its spot on. Basically shows just the water cresting over the bank and staying in the low areas. But the map has not been approved by FEMA. There will be alot of people out of the flood zone if it is. My flood insurance was going to run $2000 a year. I paid $1500 for a survey and had to wait a month for the Letter Of Map Amendment from FEMA. My neighbor started the fight with them a few years ago. His took much longer but finally got out of it. With his LOMA in place it also helped me. So now if they drag their feet or dont ever approve the new maps. There are two LOMAs in place and hopefully it trickles down the line so people aren't paying for insurance that they dont need. I didn't know it at the time but its FEMA that gets the flood insurance money and not your insurance company.
But yeah the creek could break over its banks. My dad said he seen it once here and it was just in the lower yard. This past year with all the flooding in the area I seen it about 1' below the bank. And we are actually in a flood warning now. It's around 5 'below its bank at the lowest part and about 8' below my bridge. The creek is usually pretty low, but when it's up, it has a very good flow it it.Leave a comment:
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I have the utmost faith that you and your wife will soon make it your own.
As to the flood zone issue you mentioned above, what makes it almost so?
Are you close to a tidal body of water, or does the creek overflow its banks in heavy rain?Leave a comment:
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Thank you all!
It was kind of weird at first, cause I'd feel that I was just coming into paps house. It didn't feel like my place. But it didn't take to long till it felt that it was our home.Leave a comment:
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Buy a house they said. It will be great they said.
Mother Nature decided I had to much money in the bank, so game me a gift.
Bitch
Stole some shingles off my kids tree house in the middle of the night and slid them under existing damaged shingle for the night.
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Never realized we had a house thread on here. Anyways just got our first home not to long ago. It was my grandparents house for the past 16 years but pap passed and my family asked if I wanted to purchase it at the accessed value. I went for it and finally got it. Built in 1926, fairly familiar with the house so not really walking into any surprises. One pain about getting it was that FEMA had it in a flood zone. This place has never flooded to our knowledge even at the worst one in 1996 the house didn't get touched. So I had a elevation survey done and then had to get a Letter Of Map Amendment. So I'm out of the flood zone but the lower part of the yard is still in it. No worries to me cause nothing will be built that low anyways.
The garage is a bit useless for one. It might as well be a big shed. Dirt floor and has a bunch of water coming out of it when it is very wet out. We think there maybe a spring in the hill behind it somewhere. In later years I'll most likely build a 2.5 car garage off to the side of the house.
Sitting on a .75 acre lot. Has a small creek out front with a little bridge to cross. There is not much work to be done to the house. Some of the plaster needs fixed and would like to redo the upstairs bathroom. Plus I'll have a bit of paiting to do in the spring to the outside of the house.
Dont have many pictures, but did get a picture of the first snowfall of the season.
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^Awesome. I'm jealous you have room in your panel.
Our house was built in the mid 60's and had an old fuse panel. House had 2 major reno's/additions back in the 80's. So what did they do? Add 1 breaker panel for the first one and one breaker panel for the second... :( All in different places!!!Leave a comment:
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Power to the garage: “Day 2”
So now we have the power properly routed from the box into the garage. We patched up the wall, just need to clean that up, but we’re officially IN the garage. There’s some issues with the garage door itself and I need to sort those out before we finish this off. Pretty stoked how it’s coming togetherLeave a comment:
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Before the closet addition we are re-siding the house.
Moving to cement board with smart trim. ~40% done.
Untitled by Michael Rickerd, on Flickr
Those red things attached to the verticals are called pump jacks. You lay a board between the two and then use your foot to pump them up the verticals.Leave a comment:
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